North Carolina · NAICS 56 · Annual, 2025

Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 56 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (NAICS 56) employed about 326,400 people in North Carolina across roughly 27,981 establishments, with average annual pay of $58,630.

Employment in Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in North Carolina grew 12.6% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 326,400Employment, 2025
  • 27,981Establishments
  • $58,630Avg. annual pay
  • 6.6%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 1.13Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 218,900 to 326,400.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 218,900; 2005 226,500; 2006 238,500; 2007 246,100; 2008 240,400; 2009 216,300; 2010 233,000; 2011 250,000; 2012 260,300; 2013 272,600; 2014 284,400; 2015 290,800; 2016 295,300; 2017 296,300; 2018 299,300; 2019 302,600; 2020 290,000; 2021 313,900; 2022 336,900; 2023 331,700; 2024 326,600; 2025 326,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025326,35127,981$58,627 0.1%pub.
2024326,64027,815$55,859 1.5%pub.
2023331,66327,634$53,856 1.6%pub.
2022336,92625,099$51,105 7.3%est. · 1.00
2021313,92122,304$46,040 8.3%pub.
2020289,96520,925$42,089 4.2%est. · 1.00
2019302,63419,767$39,324 1.1%est. · 1.00
2018299,31718,943$37,125 1.0%est. · 1.00
2017296,33118,335$36,104 0.4%pub.
2016295,28218,475$34,446 1.6%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 2 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of administrative and support and waste management and remediation servicesLQSource
561Administrative and Support Services312,14095.7%1.15pub.
562Waste Management and Remediation Services14,2114.3%0.82pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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